https://old.bill.dev/tags/cloud-foundry/ Recent content in Cloud Foundry on Bill Glover Hugo en-gb hello@bill.dev (Bill) hello@bill.dev (Bill) Sun, 28 Sep 2025 22:27:35 +0100 https://old.bill.dev/2024/12/02/debugging-open-telemetry/ Mon, 02 Dec 2024 14:32:06 +0000hello@bill.dev (Bill) https://old.bill.dev/2024/12/02/debugging-open-telemetry/ <h1 id="debugging-open-telemetry">Debugging Open Telemetry</h1> <p>I wanted to send metrics from an application platform to an observability solution using Open Telemetry (OTel). I believed everything was set-up but metrics weren’t flowing from the platform to our observability tooling.</p> <p><img src="broken_otel.png" alt="Diagram showing the components in my Open Telemetry set-up and a cross indicating where we lost sight of metrics."></p> <p>This post outlines how I was able to replace our observability tooling with a second instance of the OTel collector and use it to debug the flow of metrics.</p>